The Forum Episodes Episode guide
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Feet
How do our feet work when we stand or walk, or when we dance with them?
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Self-Control
How important is our ability to postpone pleasure and can we ever master it?
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Possessions
Do the things we own and collect enrich our lives or weigh us down?
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Hierarchy
Do we have to have a 鈥榩ecking order鈥�?
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Unintended Consequences
How seemingly insignificant decisions can lead to dramatic outcomes
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Temperament
Are our personalities shaped by what we are born with or shaped by our experiences?
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Mutations in Nature
How do organisms change and evolve to adapt to their environment?
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Lines
How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.
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Big Data and Us
Who can we trust in the world of Big Data and how is it changing our lives?
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Uniformity
When is regularity good and when does it become boring, or even oppressive?
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Robots with a Heart
Do we want robots to be more social? The Forum at World-Changing Ideas Summit in New York
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Natural Navigation
Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues.
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Uncertainty
How to approach uncertainty in the modern world
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Self Assembly
How simple cells, molecules and even robots can work together to achieve complexity
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Aliens
Why do some people believe in aliens and extra-terrestrials, and not others?
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Rewilding
The impact of leaving the land to its own devices
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Challenges of Nanoscience
Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across
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Rivers
Why they are essential to our planet and how they can even shape our psyche
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Multilingualism
The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language
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Blood
The life-giving fluid in science and in our culture
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Grass
Grass provides 60% of human calorie intake and covers a quarter of the planet
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Bubbles
The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.
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Democracy and the Arts in South Africa
The Forum at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
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South Africa: Education
What鈥檚 the future of education in South Africa?
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Time to Rethink What is 'Normal'?
Where is the dividing line between what is normal and what is a mental disorder?
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Risor Festival: Outcasts
When is it better to remain an outsider? And what makes outcasts unwelcome?
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Invisibility
Is invisibility good or bad? Is it a matter of optics, morality or magic?
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Indirect Experience
What can we learn by observing others?
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Forgiveness
Can you have forgiveness without remorse?
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Challenging Assumptions
What does it really mean to challenge received wisdom?
